King Charles II

In this retrospective work AH expressed horror at the excesses of the Scots Presbyterians . She also gives here the dates of birth and death of her children, details about her financial trouble with her...

This is a formal and in many ways old-world celebration, though MC 's irrepressible personality comes through here and there. The title relays the Duke of Newcastle's various honours and peerages. Dedications to the king

James's strong admonitory style has much in common with that of religious prophets. She is equally ready to cross swords with Quakers and Dissenters on the one hand and Catholics on the other, to venerate...

In it, Charles II , Nell Gwyn , Isaac Newton , and George Fox , among others, debate religious, scientific, and artistic issues.

These fictions tend to juggle stock elements. The House of the Crickets explores the parental tyranny said to be characteristic of rural Irish family life.Betty Carew, March 1910, presents a [w]holesome love...

Among a number of ladies and noblemen-rakes, a leading character here is Lucy Walter , mistress and allegedly wife of Charles II and mother of the notorious Duke of Monmouth .

Locke spent the latter part of the 1670s in France, and then, for the last couple of years of Charles II 's reign and for the whole of that of James II , lived...

IT 's family moved to Walpole House in Chiswick Mall. Charles II 's mistress Barbara, Lady Castlemaine (patron of Delarivier Manley ) had lived in this house for some years before her death in...

About her life in CologneMC says only that the appearance of exiled English cavaliers there gave her a high opinion of their nation, and that she longed to see the banished Charles II .

GH later called her second novel, The Great Roxhythe. (published with Hutchinson in 1922 and set late in the reign of Charles II ), the worst book I ever wrote—the sort of book that makes...

MF dated her Letter 6 June. On 20 June, says its colophon, Elizabeth Stubbs delivered a printed copy into the king 's hands.

Around January 1685 (she says both that she was in her seventieth year and that Charles II was very close to his death) she travelled again to London bearing a paper for the king which...

ES personally placed in the king 's hands a one-paragraph testimony beginning This is unto thee, O King. It was apparently her first venture into writing for print.

It seems that EH 's petition To the King and both Houses of Parliament was personally presented to Charles on this day, though not by her.

The publisher, Longman , had advertised this work as in the press in a flyer printed in April 1814 (bound into a copy of Modern Times by Eliza Parsons , 1814). Within a couple of...